Prayer: Load Up the Six Shooter

Joel Schmidgall

May 24, 2007 · 10:50 AM

One question that was posed at our last meeting was what to pray when tempted during a fast. Here’s a little something to put in your spiritual arsenal. Print it out and put it in the front of your Bible for those times.

Pray the Scriptures. These are examples of prayer in the Bible. Read the passages and identify things in your own life that need to be addressed by these topics.

  • The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:5-15) - Jesus taught this lesson in prayer to his disciples.  It is not a formula for the only way we can pray, but it’s an example of how to pattern our prayer.
  • Mercy (Exodus 32:9-14) - Incredible examples of Moses pleading with God to preserve his own name and character and not destroy Israel.
  • Confession of Sin (Psalm 51) - When we sin against God, how can we pray to restore our fellowship? David’s prayer is a classic prayer of repentance.
  • Praise (1 Chronicles 29:9-20) - This is a psalm of praise and David’s prayer for Solomon to build the temple.
  • Deliverance and Healing (2 Kings 19:14-19; 20:1-7) – Here is a godly king about to see his nation conquered and destroyed by the mighty Assyrian army. Then he who has just heard from a prophet that he should prepare to die soon. How does he pray?
  • Surrender (Psalm 139) - David struggles with God’s intense knowledge of him, marvels at God’s intricate formation of him in his mother’s womb, and then prays a prayer of surrender to God’s searching, knowing, probing, and refining.
  • Success (Nehemiah 1:1-2:9) -Nehemiah hears of the suffering of the returned exiles. After grieving in fasting and prayer, Nehemiah prays for success—and commits himself to God’s will for his life.
  • Submission (Luke 22:39-46) - Jesus asks for the cup (crucifixion) to be bypassed, but then prays for the Father’s will to be done most of all.
  • Paul’s Prayers for Believers (Ephesians 1:15-23; 3:14-21) - Here are Paul’s prayers for the Ephesian Christians - and for us - to really understand the heights and depths of Christ’s love for us.
  • Jesus’ Prayer Chapter (John 18).  Jesus prays for Himself, for His disciples, and for all believers.

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